A few gems from the summer,
hidden away in the digital archive.

Summerland Ornamental Gardens, Summerland, British Columbia.
Sony A7 11, 50mm F1.4 Leica Summilux lens.

Two months ago,

and a week ago...

Haliburton, Ontario.
Sony A7 11, 50mm F1.4 Leica Summilux lens
Ambleside, West Vancouver.
Blackberry Passport Z10

Stair way to heaven.

Inglis, Manitoba.
Sony A7 11, 21mm F2.8 Zeiss Biogon lens

Field patterns,
the art of harvesting.

East of Drumheller, Alberta.
Sony A7 11, 90mm F2.8 Tele Elmarit Leica lens.

Saskatchewan sentries...

North Battleford, Saskatchewan.
Sony A7 11, 90mm F2.8 Tele Elmarit Leica (Canada) lens.

Rural Saskatchewan Architecture,

Re use,
re build,
build anew
or

abandon...

Near Marshall, Saskatchewan.
Sony A7 11, 50mm F1.4 Summilux Leica lens and 135mm F3.5 Canon RF lens.

Upside downside.

Chewing cows, having a look.

Russell, Manitoba.
Sony A7 11, 50mm F1.4 Summilux Leica lens.

'Running back to Saskatoon'

A great song by
Burton Cummings and Randy Bachmann during their Guess Who days.

Sony A7 11, 50mm F1.4 Summilux Leica lens.

The summer gone,
another phase begins...

My heart beating,
eyes open.

Nipigon Bay, Lake Superior, Ontario.
Sony A7 11, 135mm F3.5, Canon RF Lens.

Drummers,

Stanley Park Third Beach Drum Circle, Vancouver.
Sony A7 11, 50mm F1.4 Summilux Leica lens

I love curves.

Summerland Ornamental Gardens, Summerland, B. C.
Lynn Valley, North Vancouver.
Sony A7 11, 50mm F1.4 Summilux Leica lens.

At the art gallery...

Bharti Kher, Matter, Vancouver Art Gallery
The end section of The Ideas of The North show, Ontario Art Gallery, Toronto.
Blackberry Passport.

Some where else...

The Brick Works, Toronto.
Sony A7 11, 35mm F2.0 Canon RF lens

Only the shadow knows...

Kingston, Ontario
Sony A7 11, 50mm F1.4 Summilux Leica lens

The guy in the puddle.

Distillery District, Toronto.
Sony A7 11, 90mm F2.8 Tele Elmarit Leica lens

Last weekend was Vancouver Pride.

I couldn't resist re posting this one from last year.

Denman Street, Vancouver.
Nikon D600, 70mm - 300mm AFD lens.

Follow the leader.

Distillery District, Toronto.
Sony A7 11, 35mm F2.0 Canon RF lens

Throwing stones.

Whytecliff Park, West Vancouver.
Sony A711, 15mm F4.5 Voigtlander lens

The 'wood burning guy'

An artist with magnifying glass, piece of plywood, the sun
and a great deal of patience.

Gastown, Vancouver.
Sony A711, 90mm F2.8 Tele Elamrit Leica lens.

Near silent blog begins to awake...

I find myself lately exploring geometric patterns in the many things we build and how we inhabit these spaces. Here is an image shot in the newly renovated Park Royal Mall in West Vancouver.

West Vancouver, British Columbia.
Sony A7 11, 50mm F1.4 Leica Summilux lens

My creating new images has not stopped,
however,
my blog has been silent for all too long...

This is the winning image from the '5 Minute Portrait Challenge Workshop'
with the Globe and Mail's John Lehmann back in May.

Sony A711, Leica 50mm F1.4 Summilux lens

The remembered,

 and the disappearing.

Inglis, Manitoba,
and along a closed railway spur line, west of Saskatoon.

Sony A7, 35mm F2.0 Canon RF lens and 90mm F2.8 Tele Elmarit Leica lens.

Prairie Cathedrals.

Inglis, Manitoba.
Sony A7, 15mm F4.5 Voigtlander lens.

A small slough,
where water collects and no ploughs intrude,

the birds have gained their foot hold,
in the Prairie industrial landscape.
Sony A7, 90mm F2.8 Tele Elmarit Leica lens.

The appeal for me,
of the prairie landscape,

is that every object,
every building
and growing thing,
has a significance beyond what actually is.

A yellow tree...

Drumheller, Alberta.
Sony A7, 135mm F3.5, Canon RF lens. (Made 1962 in Japan)

Grain storage,
the older way.

Drumheller, Alberta.
Sony A7, 135mm F3.5, Canon RF lens.

Line up.

West of Drumheller, Alberta.
Sony A7, 135mm F3.5 Canon RF lens

Why this tree?

North of Portage La Prairie, Manitoba
Sony A7, 135mm F3.5 Canon RF lens

Churned earth and the setting sun,

West of Drumheller, Alberta.
Leica M6, 135mm F3.5 Canon RF lens, Agfa ATX100 film.

Setting sun,
air thick with harvest waste,
pounding thunder.

Great machines,
duel like tanks,
capturing the bounty,
before the next rain,
and frost
closes the gate.

East of Beiseker, Alberta.
Sony A7, 35mm F2.0 Canon RF lens

Growing mushrooms,
under the great east west flyway.

Russell, Manitoba
Sony A7, 90mm F2.8 Tele Elmarit Leica lens.

Objects and lines to the horizon,


the monuments of the flat lands.

Near Kindersley, Saskatchewan.
Sony A7, 90mm F2.8, Tele Elmarit Leica lens.

And now for something completely different.

In October this past year, I drove back home to Vancouver from Toronto after my oldest son's wedding.

In the next while,
here are some of the images
from that wonderful road trip.

These images were shot just inside the eastern border of Alberta on the way south to Drumheller.
Sony A7, 90mm F2.8 Tele Elmarit (Canada) Leica lens.

A moment,

Devoid of summer leaves,
touched by another brush.

Deer Lake Park, Burnaby, B.C.
Sony A7, 50mm F1.4 Summilux Leica lens.